Hoffmann did observe that the animals became somewhat restless during the experiments, but this was not considered to be very interesting and the compound was shelved.

However, there was something of the genius about Hoffmann. He had "insights" and "hunches" that normal people just don't have. Science is supposed to be an entirely logical enterprise. However, every scientist knows this is not entirely true. Really good scientists have an instinct about how things work. Where it comes from, nobody knows.

When did Salon switch from hiring college drop-outs to using high school drop-outs?.

Dude, I'm too old to be a hipster. Though my friends and I did tie-dye our own t-shirts, right before the Ventura Dead show the year it was cancelled because Jerry had a major tooth infection or something. I think it was '86 or '87.

Hoffmann did observe that the animals became somewhat restless during the experiments, but this was not considered to be very interesting and the compound was shelved.

However, there was something of the genius about Hoffmann. He had "insights" and "hunches" that normal people just don't have. Science is supposed to be an entirely logical enterprise. However, every scientist knows this is not entirely true. Really good scientists have an instinct about how things work. Where it comes from, nobody knows.

When did Salon switch from hiring college drop-outs to using high school drop-outs?.

In complete and total fairness, they have a point.

Scientist has a hunch called a "Hypothesis"Scientist designs way to test hunch called "Experiment"Scientist uses Experiment to prove or disprove Hypothesis to within a certain degree of statistical rigorousness. .

Dude, I'm too old to be a hipster. Though my friends and I did tie-dye our own t-shirts, right before the Ventura Dead show the year it was cancelled because Jerry had a major tooth infection or something. I think it was '86 or '87.

FYI, it was Ventura '86 that was cancelled, and the major toothache was actually a diabetic coma.

Dude, I'm too old to be a hipster. Though my friends and I did tie-dye our own t-shirts, right before the Ventura Dead show the year it was cancelled because Jerry had a major tooth infection or something. I think it was '86 or '87.

FYI, it was Ventura '86 that was cancelled, and the major toothache was actually a diabetic coma.

/Dylan and the Dead 1986: The Worst Tour Evar

Yeah. I saw that in Anaheim. When they cut power to the recording section it was the only time I ever heard "boos" at a Dead show. And when Dylan tried to sing, his voice kept giving out and Bobby Weir had to take over for him. Also, when we entered the stadium, we had to dump our boda (sic) bags, and they only had water in them for Christsakes.

at least if you are selling the above. using is a whole different matter......

The potential harm is mainly in not knowing what you are getting or not knowing how to use what you are getting (with the notable exception of glue from your list, which is inherently unsafe to inhale). In other words, the war on drugs makes drug use much more of a safety risk.

Even better is LSD taken together with mescaline. Better yet is LSD, mescaline, and either a k-hole dosage of ketamine or a 4th plateau dosage of DXM. It's not just consciousness-expanding, it's more like consciousness-exploding.

Hoffmann did observe that the animals became somewhat restless during the experiments, but this was not considered to be very interesting and the compound was shelved.

However, there was something of the genius about Hoffmann. He had "insights" and "hunches" that normal people just don't have. Science is supposed to be an entirely logical enterprise. However, every scientist knows this is not entirely true. Really good scientists have an instinct about how things work. Where it comes from, nobody knows.

When did Salon switch from hiring college drop-outs to using high school drop-outs?.

In complete and total fairness, they have a point.

Scientist has a hunch called a "Hypothesis"Scientist designs way to test hunch called "Experiment"

Scientist uses Experiment to prove or disprove Hypothesis to within a certain degree of statistical rigorousness.

Your defense of The Scientific Method,is admirable, but misplaced. My comment was directed at the trite prose, not the subject matter. I regret not making that more clear.

I vaguely remember going years ago to the Great Highway ballroom in San Francisco (we just called it Playland; - where Chet Helms had moved his Family Dog music venue). It wasn't a Family Dog music event that night, but rather a kind of guru-a-thon, with all kinds of "teachers." I think Steve Gaskin spoke, along with assorted far east guys in robes, etc.

Anyway, while standing in line to get in, some wild looking hippy guy danced up and down the line banging on an acoustic guitar that had no back and had maybe 3 strings. He also carried a very large clear plastic bag full of small white pills, which he handed out by the fistful. Turned out to be very pure LSD. I must have gotten 70-100 in the handful he gave to me.

When you have a French style student revolution threatening the establishment, you gotta nip it in the bud, Andy! If they high they won't resist or cause an insurrection. Drugs won the drug war and prevented another civil war probably.

Dude, I'm too old to be a hipster. Though my friends and I did tie-dye our own t-shirts, right before the Ventura Dead show the year it was cancelled because Jerry had a major tooth infection or something. I think it was '86 or '87.

FYI, it was Ventura '86 that was cancelled, and the major toothache was actually a diabetic coma.

It was while tripping my brains out in 1991 that I realized that The Man had only just begun its campaign to bring Hell to Earth. Or my idea of Hell anyway, where there were microphones and videocams and tracking devices literally all over the place, where the only privacy you have is inside your head -- and only when you don't talk in your sleep or show by your body language that you're thinking unapproved thoughts. How odd that my perhaps drug-fueled "psychotic symptoms" turned out to be commonplace parts of everyday reality 20 years later.

By the way, to stop the NSA from tracking you and perhaps listening in on everything around you you have to take the battery out of your cell phone. You know those recent stories about the FBI being able to turn your laptop's camera on without the indicator light going on? And you do know that cell phones can be hacked into being on while seeming to be off, right? The only way to keep Them from using your toys against you is to cut off power to your toys. Since y'all are too weak and dumb to cut off "Big Brother's" power, I mean.

By the way, are you SURE you don't have conversations in your sleep? And how sure are you that you Significant Other is not really an enemy spy? Take heart: if you leave your cell phone near the bed without first rendering it powerless you don't need your very own CIA agent. You already know that the cell phone can send voices as well as record them: perhaps you've been secretly interrogated already. And perhaps you've been programmed/hypnotized into, say, walking into Interstate traffic. "Wilma needs a mink coat."

Remember, we've already established that today's "tinfoil paranoia" is tomorrow's Washington Post article. Until "They" decide to censor every medium they can get their grubby claws into, of course.

The next 10 years are going to be perversely fun for me. I'll be gloating myself silly and guffawing myself hoarse at you and what you let "the world" do to you. With a particularly bitter personal edge to it too: most of y'all are the kind of "Normals" who made my childhood & adolescence hell for me, very much like people who either bullied and harassed me or stood around and laughed. And the funny part is my pre-adolescent revenge fantasies were silly wastes of time, as there's no need to do anything to people who do worse to themselves.

Mark my words: I'm going to be asking you, time and time again, "How does it feel to be living out someone else's psychosis? How does it feel for someone's imaginary hell to be your real life?"

Pro-tip: don't ever piss off anybody who might be a government agent or be in cahoots with one. You do realize that machinery meant to work against "terrorists" for political reasons can also be used against you for personal ones, right? You don't have to do anything illegal or terroristic, all you have to do is get noticed by the wrong person. Hint: don't forget to check your personal electronic devices for kiddie porn you didn't put there.

That said, people really ought to stop writing science fiction: you're only giving Them ideas.